BACKGROUND • Europe 2020 strategy and ET2020 Strategy • Multilingualism • Opening Up Education • The Oslo Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education, but first of all: • Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, a decisive impulse to unleash Europe's entrepreneurial potential, to remove existing obstacles and to revolutionise the culture of entrepreneurship in Europe. OBJECTIVES AND PRIORITIES OF THE ACTION We started from these aims: • The improvement of basic skills • The early school leaving fight • The improvement of teaching quality We believe entrepreneurship is not a way to find (or create) a job and make money, but an attitude to face and solve problems in a new, creative and effective way. IDENTIFIED NEEDS • The economic crisis • Young people’s unemployment and insecurity feeling • The need for new learning and teaching methodologies CLEAR OBJECTIVES Our objectives regard: • entrepreneurship raising awareness • developing new entrepreneurial skills • making young people be more active • sharing best practices and useful methods to find innovative ideas • opening schools to an international dimension • creating stable relationships among the schools • introducing more realia into the curriculum • introducing important case studies • integrating best practices • experimenting methodologies • improving the use of technologies, particularly with mobile devices • creating opportunities for non-formal experiences like European Voluntary Service ADDED VALUE OF THE TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSION We have partners with great experience in all the relevant fields of the project and we have different types of schools (Lyceums, technical and vocational schools), public and private, in great cities and small villages, in historical places with a huge cultural background and new towns, in countries that were founders of the EU, recently added or possible members, with teachers with a long experience in International projects and two newcomers. This fabulous mix makes the project richer than a simple partnership of schools in the same country. The tasks have been equally distributed, using two criteria: a commensurate level for each one to participate in the project and an individual level, based on specific competences - someone will do something more than others and someone less but everyone will give their own personal contribution to the whole project; for example we assigned the output considering each partner’s specialty. PLANNING OF THE PROJECT As shown in the Gantt timetable there is a natural rhythm in the project, following the natural rhythm of the school (and of the seasons…). We have one international meeting just for teachers at the beginning and one at the end, approximately every 3 months a learning activity takes place which focuses on an intellectual output and an event. Dissemination is an action which runs along all the project QUALITY OF THE ACTIVITIES Every activity is strictly connected to the project. We have five focus ideas (non-formal learning, critical thinking, multilingualism, use of ICT, entrepreneurship) and a corresponding activity, output, event and dissemination. METHODOLOGY In our previous International projects we saw that the collaborative process among the teachers (10/country), the blended mobility for the students, specific topics to discuss during the meetings, a great media coverage, an intensive use of web 2.0 tools, the life with the family during the students’ exchanges, an adequate timetable, some rules about the outputs, a mixed experience with visits to cultural sites and internships in private companies, all this creates enthusiasm in both teachers and students, it gives motivation and produces realistic results. EVALUATION Our job is teaching, not travelling or cooking. We need the evaluation of our and students’ work. That’s why we have prepared many forms of evaluation (formal and not-formal, formative and summative), both for the process and the results. We need to evaluate the students’ work but we also want to give all the possibilities to evaluate our work and the results of the project. THE ROLE OF THE STUDENTS' ACTIVITIES (25/country) In this project the learning activities planned for students are the overriding priority not just an added value. We want to give our students many chances to meet innovative entrepreneurs, to see innovative schools, to have true experiences of new ways of learning, speaking English for a real interest. And this is impossible without a blended mobility. IMPACT AND DISSEMINATION We are convinced that we can change something in our schools, in our communities and give our students more chances. These results can be transferred to others schools in Europe. Many of them will have a life that is longer than the duration of the project. So the dissemination plan is a relevant aspect of the project.